The Beekeeper's Apprentice

By Laurie R. King

Book #1 in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series

A retired detective and his young apprentice face a deadly, motive-less adversary.

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384 pages

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In 1915, Sherlock Holmes, retired and studying bees, meets Mary Russell, a sharp-minded young woman. Under his guidance, she tackles a case of mysterious illness and a senator's daughter's kidnapping. But when bombs target their homes, they pursue a cunning murderer with no apparent motive, threatening to end their partnership—and their lives. Can they unravel the mystery before it's too late?

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In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own- until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes’ s reluctant tutelage, Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner’ s mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senator’ s daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep- and another on Holmes’ s- sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain’ s objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes’ s partnership- and then their lives.

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